OPINION: No doubting NRL's sincerity in standing down Jack de Belin
, the first player to be stood down under the new rules while facing a charge of aggravated sexual assault, it is likely to prompt legal action to regain the right to play until he has had his day in court.
By 15 of the 16 clubs — St George-Illawarra presumably being the hold-out — the policy will be accepted as a tough but necessary measure to save the game's reputation.To elements of the media, the policy will be a sensible and overdue reaction to multiple cases of violence against women particularly; to others another example of policy on the run and even grounds for the replacement of the allegedly populist and pliable chairman, Peter Beattie.
And so on the day Sydney's Daily Telegraph optimistically declared the ARL Commission had made"the biggest crackdown in player behaviour in rugby league history", it is was achingly apparent the game had failed to do the one thing necessary to create meaningful change.
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